<p>"I don't have any sort of link handy, but the point is that it's the person, not the school. If some guy gets into Harvard and decides to go to NDSCC instead, he's showing a level of maturity which is probably lacking from most of Harvard's freshman class."</p>
<p>The person who goes to Harvard regardless because he has nothing to prove shows more maturity. My whole point is that you dont have to feel ashamed if you go to an ivy league school and people shouldnt portray them as prestige whores although there probably are a bit more at Harvard and Princeton. Going to a non-ivy school doesnt make you any better or worse, but i still think ThatIndianGuy has false modesty, he is using complaining as a way to sort of namedrop the fact he is going to Princeton. I have seen people do the same thing before, you know the type of guy who in the middle of a conversation with a cute girl will try to fit in "I Hate how my classmates are arrogant, Im a HYP student but im humble and modest blah blah im better than other HYP students ,blah blah blah></p>
<p>Um, 2bad4u, I only included that when you started blaming me for downplaying the Ivy education. I'm clearly telling you, that is not my purpose. My purpose was to criticize threads that try to rank your "desire" to get into Ivy Leagues and threads that try to arbitrarily rate the quality of girls at a school. I have no problem with constructive information, and believe it or not, this thread isn't even criticizing bragging (as you mention in every one of your posts). I never mentioned bragging, and really, when you think about it, I never mentioned prestige. I was talking about ignorance. Many people on these boards are more fixated on their obsession with going to an Ivy than actually getting into the Ivy itself.</p>
<p>"I never mentioned prestige. I was talking about ignorance. Many people on these boards are more fixated on their obsession with going to an Ivy than actually getting into the Ivy itself."</p>
<p>The only reason they are obssessed with ivies is due to prestige. You cant try to separate the two (an ivy without prestige is like any other school)</p>
<p>"Um, 2bad4u, I only included that when you started blaming me for downplaying the Ivy education......and believe it or not, this thread isn't even criticizing bragging"</p>
<p>I still find it hard to believe with post such as
."Please don't take such a condescending or obsessive attitude toward colleges."
"i just don't like egotistic "rankings" of schools in such minor things...like, Ivy League is more important than an education"</p>
<p>first comment gave impression of whining about people bragging, second just built on first.</p>
<p>"An Ivy without prestige is like any other school." I disagree. Sure, many people come to Ivy Leagues to gain prestige, but they offer a great education, as do many other schools. There isn't really an "any other school." Thats my point. You can't say, Ivies and "any other school." And, I wasn't saying that it was bad to be enthusiastic about getting into an Ivy League. But to rate that enthusiasm and to compare that enthusiasm? I don't think people like that are bad; I just don't think they know what an Ivy League really is. It's a sports league. All Ivy Leagues are not the same in prestige...so to clump them together isn't very smart.</p>
<p>Yes, I said "don't take a condescending or obsessive attitude toward colleges." Perhaps I shouldn't have used "obsessive," but I see nothing wrong with telling people not to take a "condescending" view toward other colleges. There is nothing wrong with it. Later, when I said I don't like "egotistic" rankings (btw, my mistake, it should be egotistical), it was true. I don't. The posts are consistent and sound. </p>
<p>I don't understand why you write "like Ivy League is more important than education." If anything, that is what I'm trying to go against. I think people should pick colleges based primarily on education, then on environment. Ivy League is neither an education, nor an environment...it is a set of schools. Yes, many Ivy League schools are great...but other than my saying that we shouldn't trod on other great schools (which I haven't done) and saying that threads about ranking schools aren't always smart (which I hold as correct), I haven't given any indication that I'm bragging.</p>
<p>The first comment gives no impression of bragging. In fact, most kids who post about those have no college about which to brag...they are still applying! I don't see how it is bragging if someone at Duke or Yale is telling others not to throw stones at other universities...and in fact, your last post is wrong: whining and bragging are rarely related. I was doing neither.</p>
<p>2bad4u, I think you got my message across to others, but I can't really get it across to you on an online forum, so I'll just move on. Feel free to continue posting (to yourself, now) as much as you want ;)</p>
<p>college rankings:
1. Stanford
2. Princeton
3. Harvard
4. Yale
5. Penn
6. Columbia
7. MIT</p>
<p>bite me =P
i dont see how picking UC santa cruz over princeton is NOT stupid (unless its for financial reasons, unlikely cuz pton offers alot of aid, or because of some family issue requiring the person to be close to home) going to UC santa cruz by no means is career suicide, but turning down the opportunity to go to princeton is throwing alot away. maybe its just ungratefulness for the skills one has been given?</p>